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Posted: May/25/2009 4:06 PM PST
I have a question I have grown up with gardens all my life but there is one thing I would like an answer to. I know with flowers you can plant two flower plants in one hole to make it look fuller and to save on space if there is not a lot to be had. Well this year planting the garden I just about ran out of space. Can you plant two like pepper plants in the same hole and will they produce a good vegetable yield? Hope this is not a dumb question to be asking. Thanks for the help. |
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Posted: May/25/2009 6:20 PM PST
I really can't answer if they would both yeild their ful potential or not planting in the same hole. I would plant them closer together than in the same hole. I feel they would have a better chance. One might chock out the other. Or remember you can always containe that one plant. |
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Posted: May/25/2009 7:52 PM PST
I cant answer putting 2 plants in one hole. Never tried it. However, sometimes you can plant things a little closer together than recommended. I would just be careful to give the crowded plants extra food and water. |
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Posted: May/26/2009 5:08 AM PST
Veggies planted too close together is counterproductive, Emily. They rob each other of nutrients so that you don't get a decent harvest from either plant. If space is a problem, try to acquire books/articles written by Dick Raymond. I have one called The Joy of Gardening. He's an advocate of 'wide row planting', a technique that allows you to make the best use of available space. |
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Posted: May/26/2009 1:31 PM PST
Thank you all for the help.I learned something new today! Either we will have to buy less plants or make our garden bigger even though we made it bigger last year. It is hard to just buy a couple varieties of plants and not lots. Thanks again. |
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Posted: May/26/2009 7:26 PM PST
Not sure where your buying your plants, but I found a green house that will sell you exactly what you want. Not the whole pack. Makes me want to shop there again next year. If you have to many, donate to a neighbor, or try container gardening. Its nice to pick off the deck once in a while than run across the freshly cut wet grass for that one single tomato/pepper. I have mud shoes. I drop them at the door. Hubby wants to make my garden larger. I think its just fine. Its quite large and I have started planting for my parents in it. I also gave up on things that don't really produce well. Egg plant, potatoes. to much work small yeild. I try to be more choosey. Hope my experience helps. Tammy |
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Posted: Jun/08/2009 4:35 AM PST
When I was in college I found a book on gardening which is no longer in print, at least not as it was in the 80s - it discussed a method called 'french intensive planting'. You 'double dig' the ground/soil so that the roots can go way down and get more moisture and nutrients and in so doing you can plant everything closer together. I planted in hexagons. You need to know how wide each plant is likely to get so that each plant will just touch another. It creates such a canopy that weeds below are shorted on light and just can't get established. This also conserves evaporative water losses. The book also describes combining root vegetables with deeply rooted plants so that you can maximize the size of your garden vertically too (just imagine that you can see below ground level). It had a section on companion planting so that one vegetable wards off diseases of another. Great book - I bought the newest addition a few years ago, but they changed it around and it is just not the same. it was a Rodale Press - Encyclopedia of Organic Gardening. Good luck! |
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Posted: Jun/08/2009 2:56 PM PST
I will make sure to check out the book it sounds like it would be very useful. Throughout the season we do give a lot of the vegetables away.one thing that is hard is that there are always new varieties of vegetables every year that I want to try them all. This year my husband is starting a grape vineyard. I honestly don't know what we are going to do with grapes from 18 vines that he planted. We will definitely have lots to eat and give a way. |
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Posted: Jun/27/2009 11:55 AM PST
There is a method called "the three sisters". You plant corn beans and squash together on one mount with the idea that the corn will support the beans and the squash will depress the weeds while the beans supply nitrogen to the other two. |
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Posted: Jun/27/2009 4:59 PM PST
Hey Michael, I never thought of that. Sounds like an easy thing to try. Emily, make wine, can juice, jelly, sell jelly at your local country store. Good Luck. Let us know what you do with it all. I'm for the wine, and fresh juice. |
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